Hands Quotes

Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross

Seek His face and not His hand.

Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.

There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.

I knew I was in good hands [with Didier Dubot] and we could accomplish whatever I had in mind.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back.

If you find something helpful to give you a hand, allow it to assist you, hands down!

He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.

In answer, she took his hand and placed it on her chest. Right over her heart. 'You're in, Cade Morgan. Only you.

If we go now, there's no coming back. You're mine all night." Her eyes flashed. "Promise?" That was it. Jack grabbed her hand and pulled her off the dance floor, toward the main entrance of the tent.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear. She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she could look at me. Lena: I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you.

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

Louis-Cesare. It's good to finally have you in hand.

You could say I'm on the troubleshooting squad." "Troubleshooting?" He put a hand on the back of his waistband. "I see trouble and I shoot it.

Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.